Sentence examples for specialist opening from inspiring English sources

Norman Preston, the editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, suggested neither Ganteaume nor any of the other three specialist opening batsmen in the team "came up to expectations", forcing Frank Worrell to open the batting.

As specialist opening batsmen, the trio were competing for the two opening positions in Bradman's first-choice team.

So I do believe in specialist opening batters and top-order players.' Diminutive fielder is crouching in shadow of Close and Co Finn picked up a side strain on the second day of the third Test at the Wanderers Stuart Broad's 6 for 17 against South Africa catapulted him to the top of the ICC rankings.

At the beginning of his career, he was known more for his bowling than his batting; in the frenzy of Cricket Australia's post-2005 search for an answer to Andrew Flintoff, he became the solution to The All-Rounder Riddle; later he became a specialist opening batsman, in both forms of the game; then he was tasked with filling the Test team's Ponting-sized hole at number three.

The selectors included only two specialist opening batsmen in the team, which caused problems when McDonald was injured and Morris struggled for form.

At the start of the film, Nicolas Cage's FBI chemical weapons specialist (opening line: "First of all, it's because I'm a Beatlemaniac") disarms a sarin gas bomb, disguised as a child's doll by a gang of nefarious offscreen Serbian immigrants.

At this unpromising address, Claw, a lobster-roll specialist, opened in May.

In 1998, David Brook, a home-energy-conservation specialist, opened a car-sharing enterprise here, down the street from People's Food Co-op.

Mr. Gosling and Mr. Huebner, each a prominent young soloist and new-music specialist, opened with the Sonata for Two Pianos (1944), a late manifestation of Stravinsky's Neo-Classical style mingled with evocations of Russian folk song.

The one-day specialist opened a lead of 11 seconds but was caught with around 800m remaining, leaving the sprinters to contest the win.

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